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# [[#Adding content|Adding content]]

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# Cleaning up through "[[#Wiki-gardening|wiki-gardening]]"

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Ballotpedia is fortunate to have an editor and staff writers, but it is also a free online encyclopedia that is built by volunteer editors and ordinary people. There are many different ways you can help.

==Adding content==

==Adding content==

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Adding to Ballotpedia is exciting because it helps your neighbors learn about their elections. You could take one ballot measure and become its expert, sharing with others everything you learn. Because it's a living archive, Ballotpedia is a move away from sound bites toward reasoned discussion and debate. Our "[[Ballotpedia:What people are saying|What people are saying]]" page is a testimony to the value readers find here.

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The way most people think about helping with the growth of Ballotpedia is through adding content--either adding information to existing articles or starting new articles. [[Help:Getting started|Getting started]] walks you through the steps to start making these contributions.

* Work on the [[Ballotpedia:Collaboration of the Month|Collaboration of the Month]].

* Work on the [[Ballotpedia:Collaboration of the Month|Collaboration of the Month]].

* Choose a [[:Category:Stub articles|stub article]] and expand on it.

* Choose a [[:Category:Stub articles|stub article]] and expand on it.

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* Links within Ballotpedia to other relevant articles

* Links within Ballotpedia to other relevant articles

* Links to relevant external pages

* Links to relevant external pages

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==Maintenance==

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See [[Ballotpedia:Maintenance]]

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==Report an error==

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Notice a problem on a Ballotpedia page? Visit [[Help:Fix or report an error|this page]] to learn more about errors, how to report them and how to fix them.

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==Wiki-gardening==

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==Maintenance==

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See [[Ballotpedia:Article improvement]] for lists of articles that have been tagged for expansion or improvement.

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Wiki-gardening refers to a variety of small article adjustments that make them easier to read or navigate, such as [[Help:Categories on Ballotpedia|adding useful category tags]]. There's '''always''' a lot of wiki-gardening to be done.

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Here are some areas that usually need help:

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* Check the [[Ballotpedia:To do list]] for general maintenance tasks.

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* Look at [[Special:Categories|Categories]] for red-linked categories. Then add a link on that category page to a relevant article.

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* Look at [[Special:Categories|Categories]] for two categories that are basically the same, but are typographically different. Eliminate one of the categories by putting all of its articles into the other category.

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* Look in [[Special:Brokenredirects|Broken re-directs]] and fix any that are broken.

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* Review a set of [[:Category:Ballot measures|ballot measures]] and add [[Help:List of Ballotpedia topic categories|additional topic category tags]] to the article after reviewing [[List of ballot measures by topic|this list of ballot measure topics]]. Most ballot initiatives fall into more than one category. (Read up on [[Help:Categories on Ballotpedia|how to add category tags to articles]].)

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==See also==

==See also==

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* [[Ballotpedia:How to contribute to Ballotpedia]]

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* [[Ballotpedia:How to contribute to Ballotpedia|How to contribute to Ballotpedia]]

Contents

Ballotpedia is fortunate to have an editor and staff writers, but it is also a free online encyclopedia that is built by volunteer editors and ordinary people. There are many different ways you can help.

Adding content

The way most people think about helping with the growth of Ballotpedia is through adding content--either adding information to existing articles or starting new articles. Getting started walks you through the steps to start making these contributions.